On top of that it is a "passive" optical network (at least Verizon's is), so no powered equipment in the neighborhood to worry about maintaining.

The wireless gateway would have to implement T.38 to support fax machines. Most alarms have already switched to wireless, so that shouldn't be a problem (dry pair isn't an option with many FTTH installs either).

XP Embedded 2009 is supported until 2019. I have POSReady 2009 installed in a VM to see if it gets updates post April. Wouldn't be surprised if folks figure out a way to get the patches working on retail XP.

NJ dropped safety inspections in 2010, its now emissions only. They found that the safety inspections weren't all that effective in improving the actual safety of the cars on the road. Road salt is effective at taking older cars off of the roads here more so than any inspection.

Dealers did this to get around CARB restrictions on the sale of diesel cars that didn't meet Tier II Bin 5 emissions limits. They would scour auctions across the country for diesel cars that had around 7500 miles on them (the minimum to exempt the car from CARB requirements) and resell them at a hefty markup.

Apple did have consumer direct sales via mail/phone for a short period in the early 90s via "The Apple Catalog".

Tesla maintains their own service centers, they even have one in New Jersey that services the NYC metro area. Regarding loans, they can easily assign that to a 3rd party lender to handle or the customer can arrange their own financing. Dealerships have lending offices as a matter of convenience and profit (sells more cars, plus they can pocket a percentage of the interest on a loan).

Relevant link: https://www.grc.com/fingerprin... This is one reason why companies are opposed to non-IE web browsers. Firefox has its own cert store for example.

Depends on the definition of "legacy". For many, upgrading to a NT based OS (usually XP) from Windows 9x was painful if they had a substantial investment in DOS programs (that won't run in NTVDM) and legacy hardware.

I wonder if some enterprising individuals will attempt to port the security fixes to retail XP.

Quite a few Core2Duo machines came with Windows XP MCE2005 when new. Add in businesses using downgrade rights and the occasional special order XP machine post-Vista release and you have a ton of hardware that can run Windows 7 but has XP. Most of them need RAM though. Many of those machines only came with 1GB new (which they could get away with running XP) and were never upgraded. 1GB is barely enough to run 32-bit Windows 7 well, its much happier with 2+GB.

Windows Easy Transfer is present in 8.1. Looks like it can't transfer data out of the machine though, just restore it from a previous computer.

ReBirth RB-338? It was never available as a Windows 3.1x application. It did run on NT 4.0 though. I wonder what Microsoft broke in Vista/7 that prevents it from launching. If I recall it supported both DirectSound and MME output.

Except those users aren't paying anything and have no incentive to stay. There is nothing keeping them from fleeing to another service. At least when Google acquired Doubleclick, the business had existing paying customers included in part of the deal.

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